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In June 2015, a woman alleges that she was the victim of forcible rape and sexual battery at the hands of a jailer with Muskogee County Jail in Muskogee, Oklahoma.…
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On October 7, 2017, an off-duty police officer with the Little Rock, Arkansas Police Department encountered 28-year-old James Hartsfield. She said that he appeared to be driving while drinking an…
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Unfortunately, the Wake County Detention prisoner who attempted to commit suicide this week has passed away. April Elaine Peed Cumbo, 42 years of age, passed away on Tuesday. Ms. Cumbo…
Read More April Elaine Peed Cumbo apparently attempted to commit suicide by hanging on April 9, 2018 in the Wake County Detention Center in Raleigh, North Carolina. As of this post, it…
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On Wednesday, April 4, 2018, in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, a police officer with the Okmulgee Police Department allegedly shot and killed a man wielding a knife. According to the Oklahoma State…
Read More The Dallas Police Department filed a custodial death report with the Attorney General of Texas regarding the death of John O. Newton. Information in this post was obtained from that…
Read More At Jefferson County Jail in Madras, Oregon, 59-year-old prisoner James Eugene Wippel died on April 26, 2017, of what was referred to at the time as a “serious medical issue”.…
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Graphic dashcam videos released in the first week of April 2018 and posted on the Internet show two officers with the New Jersey State Police searching a man’s genitals and…
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Zachary Keen Brown, age 19, was arrested on March 21, 2018, in Perryton, Texas, and had a seizure a couple of hours later. Jail personnel at Ochiltree County Jail sent…
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On Saturday, March 31, 2018, in Travis County Jail, Austin, Texas, two prisoners were discovered dead in separate incidents authorities say are unrelated. The prisoners, both Austin residents, were 24-year-old…
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A resident of Milam County and former prisoner in Milam County Jail in Cameron, Texas, John L. Robertson, filed a federal lawsuit against several Milam County officials and jail employees…
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Audra West was arrested in a swimming suit and skirt and placed in Pompano Beach Jail in April 2014. While in a waiting room at the jail, her menstruation started…
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A settlement of $187,500 is being paid to 38-year-old Vielka Lippe, who filed an excessive force lawsuit against an off-duty police officer with the Oklahoma City Police Department. According to…
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Alton Sterling, an African American, was 37 years old when he was allegedly shot six times by police officers on July 5, 2016, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The Caucasian police…
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Danny Ray Thomas was ordered by a Harris County deputy to get on the ground, and then the deputy allegedly fired his weapon and killed him, all within 17 seconds.…
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In a report released on March 22, 2018, an immigrant rights group made claims of abuse against prisoners from Somalia by guards at a private prison facility under contract with…
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On May 24, 2014, 15-year-old Monique Tillman and her then 16-year-old brother were riding their bicycles through the parking lot of a Tacoma, Washington, mall when they encountered an off-duty…
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On Tuesday, March 20, 2018, in Duncanville, Texas, an officer-involved shooting occurred in the 200 block of Martin Luther Circle. Police officers with the Duncanville Police Department responded to a…
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On July 15, 2017, 40-year-old Justine Damond — an Australian woman and resident in Minneapolis, Minnesota – called 9-1-1 to report suspicious activity near her home. When police arrived, Damond,…
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Twenty-three-year-old Brandy Edwardsen was discovered unresponsive in her Muskogee County Jail cell in Oklahoma just after midnight on Saturday, March 24, 2018. She was quickly transported to a nearby hospital,…
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